Dekalb County Newswire

Confederate flag supporters demonstrate atop Stone Mountain as they protest what they believe is an attack on their Southern heritage during a rally at Stone Mountain Park in Stone Mountain, Ga., on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015. MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT; LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; WXIA-TV OUT; WGCL-TV OUT Confederate flag supporter Jerry Gray of Conyers, Ga., is held back by a fellow supporter as he yells at Ku Klux Klan members to go home, while he and others protest what they believe is an attack on their Southern heritage during a rally at Stone Mountain Park in Stone Mountain, Ga., on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015.
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Carson Kimsey, 23, and wife Nikki Kimsey traveled over 30 miles from Elbert County, Ga., to Abbeville, S.C., where they hoped to buy a Confederate flag, only to learn that the store had sold out. Confederate flag supporters march past the Stone Mountain Park's Confederate memorial carving as they make their way to the top in protest of what they believe is an attack on their Southern heritage during a rally at Stone Mountain Park in Stone Mountain, Ga., on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015.
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... program is the 5th consecutive year of holding this key community-based event taking place in the Decatur/DeKalb County community. Free book-bags and supplies, free haircuts, a health-fair, and other activities are part of the lineup for the ...
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Hundreds of Confederate battle flags were waving in a Stone Mountain, Ga., parking lot on Saturday, at a rally in support of the controversial symbol. Some supporters danced to the tune of "Dixie" and others cheered as they stood atop pickup trucks.
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... one in the back and another in the hip and arm. The evidence also demonstrated that, while at a nightclub in DeKalb County, Georgia, on July 20, 2008, Espinoza and other members of MS-13 engaged in a fight with persons they suspected were members of ...
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L.C. Thornton, a tall black man in a ball cap and sunglasses, trained his camera Saturday across a sea of waving Confederate flags attached to the beds of hundreds of pickup trucks and SUVs. "Normally, I'm a birder.
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Confederate flag supporters climb Stone Mountain to protest of what they believe is an attack on their Southern heritage during a rally at Stone Mountain Park in Stone Mountain, Ga., on Saturday. Large images of endangered species are projected on the south facade of The Empire State Building, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015, in New York.
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Slaves came to America in chains, shackled side by side in the dark, stinking bellies of sailing ships that ferried them across the Atlantic. Given up to a strange land, robbed of human dignity, they were forced to labor from sunrise to sunset with no real prospects but bondage - and no hopes but the shriveled, vestigial hope of eventual freedom.
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Hundreds gathered at Georgia's Stone Mountain Park today for a Confederate Flag rally, and others followed suit around the country. Stone Mountain is historic in that it bears a carving of Confederate leaders from the Civil War.
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On Saturday, hundreds upon hundreds of people from Georgia arrived at Stone Mountain, the nation's largest Confederate memorial, to show their support for the Confederate flag. The Southern Poverty Law Center reported that some of the attendees were armed: they tweeted a photo of one attendee openly carrying an AR-15 style rifle as he walked around.
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Four-star inside linebacker Elysee Mbem-Bosse has released his top seven schools and Ole Miss made the cut. The 6'2, 228-pound Ellenwood, Ga. native is highly sought after and is obviously a big target for the Rebs with linebacker being a big-time position of need.
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Angry protests as civil rights leaders clash with Confederate flag supporters at rally in the shadow of huge sculpture glorifying Civil War leaders Police had to step in to hold back protesters who started yelling obscenities at a large group of 'heritage not hate' marchers at Stone Mountain Park in central Georgia. The clash came against the backdrop of the world's largest pro-Confederate memorial - an enormous sculpture of rebel leaders carved into the mountain, measuring a total of three acres.
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"We're treating it like the Fourth of July," Stone Mountain spokesman John Bankhead told the Atlanta newspaper in regard to park tightening security for the event. A photo tweeted by the Southern Povery Law Center shows attendees weren't arriving with just flags in tow, either: Besides, "leave your guns at home" wasn't among the event's rules.
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